"of loving'. It was the sixth most popular film at the British box office in 1962. The film won the Golden Bear award at the 12th Berlin International Film Festival in 1962. A Kind of Loving (film) A Kind of Loving is a 1962 British drama film directed by John Schlesinger, based on the 1960 novel of the same name by Stan Barstow. It stars Alan Bates and June Ritchie as two lovers in early 1960s Lancashire. The photography was by Denys Coop, and the music by Ron Grainer. Filming locations included the towns of Preston, Blackburn, Bolton, Salford, Manchester,"
"Stan Barstow Stanley Barstow FRSL (28 June 1928 – 1 August 2011) was an English novelist. Barstow was born in Horbury, near Wakefield in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His father was a coal miner and he attended Ossett Grammar School. He worked as a draughtsman and salesman for an engineering company. He was best known for his 1960 novel ""A Kind of Loving"", which has been turned into a film, a television series, a radio play and a stage play. The author's other novels included ""Ask Me Tomorrow"" (1962), ""The Watchers on the Shore"" (1966) and ""The Right True"
"A Kind of Anger A Kind of Anger is a novel by British thriller writer Eric Ambler, first published in 1964. Like many of Ambler's post-war novels the thriller plot is laced with elements of comedy. A car comes hurtling down the drive of a remote villa near Zurich, crashes into a lorry, but carries on without stopping. When the police investigate, they find the body of an exiled Iraqi general inside the villa. He has been tortured and shot three times, and the house has been ransacked. Witnesses say the fleeing car was driven by a beautiful young woman."
"subversive and amoral tone. Although comic in overall intention, the plot of the novel is rooted in historical and political realities, namely the troubled history of the Kurds. This is explained at some length in the novel, from the post-Great War Treaty of Sèvres onwards. Mention is also made of the 1958 coup which overthrew the monarchy to create the republic of Iraq. Situating the plot in this political context gives the novel a sense of urgency and reality. A Kind of Anger A Kind of Anger is a novel by British thriller writer Eric Ambler, first published in 1964."
"Angela Lambert Angela Lambert (née Angela Maria Helps) (14 April 1940 – 26 September 2007) was a British journalist, art critic and author, best known for the novel ""A Rather English Marriage"", and her novel ""Kiss and Kin"" won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award. Born as Angela Maria Helps to an English civil servant and a German-born housewife. She was unhappy when sent to Wispers School, a girls' boarding school in Sussex, where by the age of 12 she had decided that she wanted to be a writer. She went to St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she read"
"A Kind of Alaska A Kind of Alaska is a one-act play written in 1982 by British playwright Harold Pinter. A middle-aged woman named Deborah, who has been in a comatose state for thirty years as a result of contracting ""sleepy sickness,"" encephalitis lethargica, awakes with a mind still that of a sixteen-year-old. She must confront a body which seems to have aged without her prior knowledge or consent. Her sister Pauline and Pauline's husband, Hornby, who has been Deborah's devoted doctor over these three decades and who may have fallen in love with her, attempt gently to ease her"
"""Circus of Horrors"" (1960), the thriller ""Payroll"" (1961) from the novel by Derek Bickerton and ""Night of the Eagle"" (1962) which he re-wrote following a draft by Charles Beaumont and Richard Matheson, though his credit was omitted from the US version which was released as ""Burn, Witch, Burn"". In 1966 he published ""A Queer Kind of Death"", his first novel, which was met with considerable acclaim, not least for his creation of gay black detective Pharaoh Love. The influential ""New York Times"" critic Anthony Boucher said in his review that, ""This is a detective story, and unlike any other that"
"Richard Amory Richard Amory (October 18, 1927, Halfway, OR – August 1, 1981, San Jose, CA), born Richard Wallace Love, was an American writer. He obtained a bachelor's degree in sociology from Ohio State University, a M.A. in Spanish from San Francisco State University, and began an uncompleted Ph.D. in Spanish at University of California, Berkeley. A high school teacher by profession, he achieved success as a novelist in the late 1960s while still a graduate student and before coming out. Amory is best known for his 1966 novel ""Song of the Loon: A Gay Pastoral in Five Books and"
"A New Kind of Love A New Kind of Love is a 1963 American romantic comedy film directed by Melville Shavelson and starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Frank Sinatra sings ""You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me"" over the opening credits. A womanizing American reporter assigned in Paris (Paul Newman) mistakes a cynical fashion copycat designer (Joanne Woodward) for a prostitute after she receives a makeover. He decides to interview her for a series of articles, then falls in love with her. The girl goes along with it, first out of revenge as he snubbed her during"
"was later turned into a 1982 television series ""A Kind of Loving"". Victor 'Vic' Brown (Bates) is a draughtsman in a Manchester factory who sleeps with a typist called Ingrid Rothwell (Ritchie) who also works there. She falls for him but he is less enamoured of her. When he learns he has made her pregnant Vic proposes marriage and the couple move in with Ingrid's protective, domineering mother, Mrs Rothwell (Thora Hird), who disapproves of the match. Ingrid has a miscarriage, Vic has regrets and comes home drunk. The couple then consider the possibility of making do with 'a kind"
"A Shade of Difference A Shade of Difference () is a 1962 political novel written by Allen Drury. It is the first sequel to ""Advise and Consent"", for which Drury was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960, and was followed in 1966 by ""Capable of Honor"". The novel focuses on the politics among delegations to the United Nations and the troubles that Third World nations cause the United States as it vies for political advantages against the Soviet Union during the Cold War, as well as racial tensions within the United States surrounding the integration of public schools"
"Aspects of Love (novel) Aspects of Love is a novel by author David Garnett centering on the loves of a young soldier named Alexis Golightly, his uncle George Dillingham, and the beautiful actress Rose Vibert from whom neither man could escape. It was originally published in 1955. In 1989 this book served as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical of the same name. Alexis, a young Englishman recently expelled from school, enlists in the army. He falls in love with a beautiful French actress named Rose Vibert, who later abandons him to marry his uncle, an older, more learned"
"lived in London and France (having bought a house in the Dordogne in 1972). She is survived by TV director Tony Price, her partner of 21 years, and by her son and two daughters. Angela Lambert Angela Lambert (née Angela Maria Helps) (14 April 1940 – 26 September 2007) was a British journalist, art critic and author, best known for the novel ""A Rather English Marriage"", and her novel ""Kiss and Kin"" won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award. Born as Angela Maria Helps to an English civil servant and a German-born housewife. She was unhappy when sent to"
"much he really loves her. “Love – why, I'll tell you what love is: it's you at 75 and her at 71, each of you listening for the other's step in the next room, each afraid that a sudden silence, a sudden cry, could mean a lifetime's talk is over.” ― Brian Moore, ""The Luck of Ginger Coffey"" The Luck of Ginger Coffey (novel) The Luck of Ginger Coffey, a novel by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore, was published in 1960, in the United States by ""The Atlantic Monthly"" and in the United Kingdom by Andre Deutsch. In Canada, it"
"a past encounter, then out of feelings of her own. Academy Award Golden Globe Award Laurel Awards A New Kind of Love A New Kind of Love is a 1963 American romantic comedy film directed by Melville Shavelson and starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Frank Sinatra sings ""You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me"" over the opening credits. A womanizing American reporter assigned in Paris (Paul Newman) mistakes a cynical fashion copycat designer (Joanne Woodward) for a prostitute after she receives a makeover. He decides to interview her for a series of articles, then falls in love"
"Some Kind of Love ""Some Kind of Love"" is a song by American rock band The Killers for their fifth studio album ""Wonderful Wonderful"" (2017). It was released on September 15, 2017 as the album's second promotional single. The Killers' frontman Brandon Flowers has stated that once he started writing personal songs for the band's upcoming album ""Wonderful Wonderful"", he began to second-guess himself, and so, he decided to play some of them to his wife Tana, who suffers from PTSD: ""I'd never done anything like that before, where we'd sit down and play the songs for her, and explain"
"A Groovy Kind of Love ""A Groovy Kind of Love"" is a pop song written by Toni Wine and Carole Bayer Sager and published by the Screen Gems music publishing company. It is heavily based on the Rondo movement of Sonatina in G major, op. 36 no. 5, by Muzio Clementi. The song title was an early use of the then-new slang word ""groovy"". Wine, who was 17 years old when she wrote the song, said, ""Carole came up with ""Groovy kinda… groovy kinda… groovy…"" and we're all just saying, 'Kinda groovy, kinda groovy, kinda…' and I don't exactly know"
"on the literary map. The short story collection ""Strange Relations"" (1960) was a notable event in the genre. He was one of three persons to whom Robert A. Heinlein dedicated ""Stranger in a Strange Land"" (1961), a novel which explored sexual freedom as one of its primary themes. Moreover, ""Fire and the Night"" (1962) is a mainstream novel about an interracial romance; it features sociological and psychosexual twists. In ""Night of Light"" (1966), he devised an alien race where aliens have only one mother but several fathers, perhaps because of an unusual or untenable physical position that cannot be reached"
"One Kind of Love ""One Kind of Love"" is a song written by Brian Wilson and Scott Bennett, released as the eleventh track on Wilson's eleventh studio album ""No Pier Pressure"" on April 7, 2015. A music video debuted online two months later in June. It is one of the few songs on the album which does not give a writing credit to Joe Thomas. The song was written for Bill Pohlad's film ""Love & Mercy"" and appears on its accompanying soundtrack. ""The Telegraph"" drew comparisons between it and the french horn in ""God Only Knows"". In a review that"
"A Sunday Kind of Love ""A Sunday Kind of Love"" is a popular song composed by Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Stan Rhodes, and Louis Prima and was published in 1946. The song has become a pop and jazz standard, recorded by many artists. The song was first recorded by Claude Thornhill and his Orchestra on November 11, 1946. He released the song as a single in January, 1947 and it became permanently identified as the signature song for its vocalist, Fran Warren. Louis Prima and his Orchestra released his recording of the song in February 1947. The popularity of the"
"23 episodes of the TV series ""The Four Just Men"" and four 30-minute episodes of the series ""Danger Man"". By the 1960s, he had virtually given up acting to concentrate on a directing career, and another of his earlier directorial efforts, the British Transport Films' documentary ""Terminus"" (1961), gained a Venice Film Festival Gold Lion and a British Academy Award. His first two fiction films, ""A Kind of Loving"" (1962) and ""Billy Liar"" (1963) were set in the North of England. ""A Kind of Loving"" won the Golden Bear award at the 12th Berlin International Film Festival in 1962. His"
"Same Kind of Different as Me Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together, published June 2006, is a book co-written by Ron Hall and Denver Moore, with Lynn Vincent, telling about Hall's and Moore's intersecting life journeys. It is published by Thomas Nelson. Moore grew up as a sharecropper on a plantation in Red River Parish, Louisiana. He lived through years of hardship and homelessness, but changed both his and others' lives after meeting Hall, who was volunteering in a meals program. Ron Hall and Denver"
"A Kiss Before Dying (novel) A Kiss Before Dying is a 1953 novel written by Ira Levin. It won the 1954 Edgar Award, for Best First Novel. The book has been adapted twice for the cinema: first in 1956 and later in 1991. Now a modern crime classic, Levin's story centers on a charming, intelligent man who will stop at nothing, even murder, to get where he wants to go. His problem is a pregnant woman who loves him. The solution involves desperate measures. Bud Corliss is a young man with a ruthless drive to rise above his working-class origins"
"Some Kind of a Nut Some Kind of a Nut is a 1969 American comedy film written and directed by Garson Kanin and starring Dick Van Dyke, Angie Dickinson and Rosemary Forsyth. Fred Amidon is a New York City bank teller whose wife Rachel is divorcing him. Fred already has a new fiancée, bank colleague Pamela Anders, with whom he is about to embark on a vacation. While on a picnic in the park, Fred is stung on the chin by a bee. Because it hurts him to shave, Fred lets a full beard grow. He returns to work from"
"Loving (1970 film) Loving is a 1970 American comedy film released by Columbia Pictures and directed by Irvin Kershner. It is based on the novel ""Brooks Wilson Ltd."" written by pulp magazine illustrator John McDermott under his pen name J. M. Ryan. The movie starred George Segal in the title role of a philandering NYC illustrator and Eva Marie Saint as his wife. The cast also included Sterling Hayden, David Doyle, Keenan Wynn, Roy Scheider and future 20th Century Fox president Sherry Lansing, among others. Brooks Wilson is a busy man, juggling his work as a commercial artist with a"
"Crazy Kind of Love Crazy Kind of Love is an American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Sarah Siegel-Magness which is based on the 1995 novel ""Angel Angel"" by April Stevens. The film stars Virginia Madsen, Graham Rogers, Amanda Crew, Zach Gilford and Sam Trammell in lead roles and was released on May 31, 2013. Depressed after getting dumped by her cheating husband, Augusta recovers from a resulting nervous breakdown by way of observing her two sons, 18-year-old Henry and older brother Matthew, as they come of age. The original working title was ""Long Time Gone"". Meg Ryan was originally attached"
"Another Kind of Monday Another Kind of Monday is a 1996 young-adult novel by the American writer William E. Coles, Jr. (1932–2005) set in 1990s Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It tells the story of Mark, a high school senior who by chance opens an old library copy of ""Great Expectations"" and finds $300 along with a set of directions that launches him into a scavenger hunt all over the city and unwittingly into a romance with a co-quester. As the two retrieve more and more assignments, their lives take twists and turns that bond them closer together. The novel was recognized as"
"A Kind of Murder A Kind of Murder is a 2016 American mystery thriller film, directed by Andy Goddard from a screenplay by Susan Boyd. It is based upon the Patricia Highsmith novel ""The Blunderer"". It stars Patrick Wilson, Jessica Biel, Vincent Kartheiser, Haley Bennett, and Eddie Marsan. The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 17, 2016. The film was released on December 16, 2016, by Magnolia Pictures. Walter Stackhouse is an architect by day, and a wanna-be novelist by night. He writes short-story crime fiction and is fascinated by a recent murder in"
"author, James Baldwin, specifically his 1956 novel ""Giovanni's Room."" Although the 1960s showed accomplishments for bisexuals in building the LGBT rights movement of the time, there was little addition to bisexual literature. Some novels, such as ""Stranger in a Strange Land"" and ""The Left Hand of Darkness"" portrayed characters or races without gender or clear gender, who were bisexual as a result, a concept that continued through more novels in following years. During the 1970s, bisexuals gained more recognition in media, and as a result there were many publications on the nature of bisexuality. Both ""Time"" and ""Newsweek"" magazines ran"
"Act of Love (novel) Act of Love is a 1981 serial killer horror novel written by American author Joe R. Lansdale. This is Lansdale's first full-length novel. Set in Houston, Texas this novel tells the story of a vicious serial killer terrorizing the entire city and the police officers' desperation to stop him. Police lieutenant Marvin Hanson leads the investigation. The killer has chosen the poor seedy side of town as his hunting grounds. As the killings become more and more gruesome, the entire city becomes under siege. Originally published in 1981 by a small publishing house called Zebra Books,"
"1958. The reader can reach no conclusion other than that Piers and Keith live together in a romantic relationship. The British class structure, which was gradually fading out at the time the novel was published, is essential to the interactions between the characters, like Wilf Bason, who cooks for a house full of celibate priests. The heroine's lifestyle also appears outmoded to today's reader. A Glass of Blessings A Glass of Blessings is a novel by Barbara Pym, first published in 1958. The title is taken from the poem ""The Pulley"" by George Herbert. The central character and narrator, Wilmet"
"A Case of Need A Case of Need is a mystery novel written by Michael Crichton under the pseudonym Jeffery Hudson. It was first published in 1968 by The World Publishing Company (New York) and won an Edgar Award in 1969. The novel was adapted into the 1972 film ""The Carey Treatment"", and was re-released in 1993 under Crichton's own name. The novel tackles the issues of abortion and racism as they were in late 1960s America. Dr. John Berry, the protagonist, is a pathologist working in Boston during the 1960s, a time when abortion was illegal in the United"
"Harper Lee Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926February 19, 2016) was an American novelist widely known for ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Though Lee had only published this single book, in 2007 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature. Additionally, Lee received numerous honorary degrees, though she declined to speak on those occasions. She was also known for assisting her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book ""In Cold Blood"" (1966). Capote"